SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Mat ter of
Br JOSEPH ALSOP
ON BAY AND BEACH
Brooklyn, N. Y. (U.R) Nei
ther Dwight D. Eisenhower nor
Adlai E. Stevenson would find
very much to cheer about, if
they took time
off from their
larger duties
to go among
the voters o f
Bay Ridge and
Brighton
Beach, here in
the wilds of
Brooklyn
As in most
jokcyh aiop parts or the
country, the President is not
doing quite as well today in
these two very different and
highly significant New York City
districts as he did back in 1952.
But in Bay Ridge and Brighton
Beach, Eisenhower's losses are
not as yet fatal. Adlai Steven
son's gains are not as yet signif
icant. The real balance of power
seems to rest with the undecided
voters, who plumped for Eisen
hower four years ago and are
now genuinely in doubt about
where they want to go this time.
TAY RIDGE and Brighton
Beach may not mean very
much to any but professional
politicians familiar with the
finer shades of New York state
politics. Nonetheless, they are
very meaningful even in national
terms. Two great national voting
groups with considerable inner
coherence, Jews (without too
many really rich Jews to distort
the picture) and Catholics (in
cluding many Catholics of Irish
descent) are strongly concen
trated in Brighton Beach and
Bay Ridge.
Physically Bay Ridge appears
somewhat the older section. The
avenues are busy enough, with
here and there a church or a
store selling religious articles to
proclaim that this is a Catholic
stronghold. But the side streets
are drably quiet, lined with long,
drab rows of rather old gray
brick working class houses, of
the sort that shelters one family
upstairs and another downstairs,
with a complex admission system
of bells, buzzers and primary and
secondary floor doors to bewil
der visitors.
Over towards the Ridge itself,
where the view is pretty, a few
of the larger, older, more spa
cious houses still stand proudly
In their own yards. And there
are trees everywhere: the streets
are full of pleasant-mannered,
rosy-faced children; and alto
gether Bay Ridge is not a bad
place at all. Neither is Brighton
Beach, although here the two
family houses are replaced by
vast, dreary warrens of apart
ment houses; and instead of
churches, of course, there are
synagogues and Jewish commun
ity centers.
THE two districts are closely
comparable, too, in income
level. In Jewish Brighton Beach,
you find more enterprisers
men who make their living from
small shops and stores of dif
ferent kinds. In Catholic Bay
Ridge you find more people who
work with their hands but they
are generally men in the higher
paid trades and industries. If
there .is a differential, it favors
Brighton Beach. Yet Brighton
Beach is solidly, almost passion
ately Democratic, while Bay
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Ridge is rather strongly Repub
lican. '
The story was almost boringly
repetitious in the vast apartment
house on Brighton Beach's Coney
Island Ave., where the able pro
fessional poller, Lou Marris, and
this reporter sounded out Jewish
election year sentiment. One
nervous-seeming woman ap
peared to be covering up a Wal
lace vote in 1948. One brisk, in-f
telligent, morbid man had voted
for Eisenhower in 1952 but was
i now rather glumly returning to
the Democratic fold.
"I find I like Ike the man but
not Ike the Republican poli
tician," he said.
QTHERWISE, t h e responses
'-'were solidly, orthodoxly
Democratic: and this was largely
true even with respect to the
Senate race between the Repub
lican Jew, Jacob Javits, and the
Catholic Democrat, Robert Wag
ner Jr. Despite his party, Javits
did get a couple of the Jewish
apartment dwellers votes. Yet
these were people who had not
bothered to vote two years ago
in the race for the State Attorney
Generalship. Again and again, on
the other hand, the people who
said they had chosen Javits in
stead of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jr. in 1954, now said that they
would vote the straight Demo
cratic ticket.
In contrast, although Javits
was still slightly in the lead in
Republican Bay Ridge, Bob
Wagner was attracting a good
many of the Catholic voters. As
for Stevenson and Eisenhower
in Bay Ridge, the picture was
rather simple.
The great majority of Catholic
voters who chose Eisenhower in
1952 to be specific, nine-tenths
of those polled in three populous,
typical blocks of 84th Street
were sticking with Eisenhower
now. Almost all of their fam
ilies had been stauchly Demo
cratic two decades ago A sprink
ling of them "like Ike" much
less than they liked his bitterest
enemy, Sen. Joseph R. McCar
thy of Wisconsin.
"But I guess we'll stick with
Ike this time," one office worker
said. "Anyway, he's better than
Stevenson. I just can't cotton to
that guy."
fF THE few Catholic votes
" Eisenhower lost, moreover,
Adlai Stevenson actually gained
only one. The rest were in the
undecided column. Again Eisen
hower had lost about a quarter
of his non-Catholic supporters in
these three blocks of 84th Street.
But in this group too, Adlai
Stevenson had made a net gain
of only tine trifling vote. The
rest of those who had left Eisen
hower had merely moved into
the undecided column.
Altogether, the picture that
emerged in Bay Ridge, particu
larly, made the course of cam
paign seem more important
than ever. And at the moment,
campaign developments seem to
be favoring the President.
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Sunday, October 14, 1956
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NEW DIRECTOR E. H. Sing
master, Ashland, was recently
elected to the board of directors
of the Jackson County Federal
Savings and Loan association.
Singmasler, senior partner in
the Singmaster and Jones insur
ance agency of Ashland, was
chosen to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Ralph Billings,
also of Ashland.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Significant note in the news:
British troops and police are
battling frenzied Chinese mobs
with riot guns, bayonets and tear
gaj in an attempt to end ANTI
FOREIGN rioting in Kowloon,
which is the mainland part of the
British crown colony of Hong
Kong.
At least eight Chinese are re
ported dead and hundreds of
persons have been injured.
T ET'S take a sharp and realis-
- tic look at what is happening
in Kowloon. '
Suppose the Chinese domi
nated GOVERNMENT and bus
iness in Medford. Or the British.
Or the French. OR THE RUS
SIANS. Or the subjects of any
other foreign power.
WE'D RESENT IT.
We'd resent it because, like
all the other peoples of the earth
we want to run our own she
bang. We'd probably start riots,
just as the Kowloon Chinese are
doing even if we knew that a
lot of us would get killed in the
rioting.
T'HIS is why the Kowloon ind
dent is significant:
The days of colonial imperial
ism on this globe that we call
The Earth are DRAWING TO A
CLOSE.
COMMUNIST Russia is now
the ONE GREAT colonialist-
imperialist power. She holds
under her stern thumb all the
surrounding conquered nations
that are commonly referred to
as her satellites. She keeps them
under her thumb because she
has GUNS and the people of her
satellites have none. They know
that if they revolt against their
imperialist Russian masters they
will be slaughtered like sheep.
the might of Russian
communism won't stand forever
against the tidal wave of nation
alism which means the natural
yearning of all peoples to run
their own affairs that is sweep
ing the world.
T0 YOU recall Achilles the
" hero of Homer's Iliad?
He had a weak spot. The weak
spot was his heel, where his
mother held him when she
dipped him in the waters of the
Styx to make him invulnerable.
She forgot that her gripping
fingers kept from his heel the
magic water of the dark river.
So, when he was wounded in
the heel by an arrow sped from
the bow of Paris, the son of Hec
tor, he DIED.
TJUSSIA'S Achilles heel is the
" inherent foulness of the bru
tal communist system of colonial
imperialism under which she
holds the victims of her con
quests. TIO! HUM! I suppose I'll have
Mo add a dash of politics to
this serving of hash. An analyti
cal note on the wires today says:
"Adlai Stevenson's suggestions
that H-bomb testing be ended
and that the possibility of halt
ing the military draft be ex
plored have turned into two of
the hottest issues of the cam
paign." TT IS MY personal opinion that
Mr. Stevenson doesn't believe
either statement. As an intelli
gent person which he is he
couldn't. And if elected he
will take no positive steps to
stop either bomb testing or the
military draft.
He's just beating the drum to
attract the votes of wishful
idealists who never stop to rea
son things out realistically.
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Democratic Sweep in Alaska Not
Sure Indicator of November Vote
BY A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The Democratic
sweep in this past week's Alask
an election cannot be regarded
as a surefire indicator of the out
come of the
outcome of the
national presi
dental election
in November,
but neither
can it be dis
r e g arded as
casually as the
R e p u blicans
would like to
Root smitb dismiss it.
.Alaskans, of course, could not
indicate their direct preference
for either President Eisenhower
or Adlai Stevenson because they
continue to live in a territory of
the United States.
Proved a Portent
Nevertheless, over the years,
the month-early Alaskan elec
tion of territorial officials and
members of the legislature has
provided a portent of things to
come nationally. For example,
after going Democratic during
the Roosevelt and Truman era,
Alaska went Republican by
landslide porportions in 1952
just a few weeks before the
country at large elected Eisen
hower by similar proportions.
In 1954 s mid-term elections,
Alaska swung heavily back into
the Democratic camp and so
did the nation in the congres
sional elections held across the
country that November.
The incomplete returns from
the 1956 balloting in Alaska
show that Democrats won 33 out
of 39 election contests. Signifi
cantly, Alaska's Delegate to
Congress, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett,
won by about 2 to 1, whereas in
1952 he just scrapped through
over his Republican opponent.
And Alaskans selected three
Democrats over three Republi
cans to come to Washington, D.
C, in January as "provisional
senators and representative" to
lobby for statehood and take
their seats in Congress if state
hood is granted.
Election Statements
Leonard Hall, chairman of the
GOP national committee, issu
ed an election eve statement
that the Alaskan election would
mean nothing nationally inas
much as statehood was the ab
sorbing issue in Alaska and that
this would provide an indicator
of things to come nationally.
There is no question but what
statehood is the big issue in
Alaska but the controversy
among candidates this year was
not whether Alaska should have
it or not, but over which party
was the more likely to bring it
to fruition. Alaskans settled the
pros and cons of statehood in
their spring primary by adopt
ing a new . constitution which
will take effect when statehood
is granted, and by agreeing to
send three elected officials to
Washington to lobby for state
hood in the same way that Ore
gon and half dozen other states
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did it many years ago.
The people of Alaska indicat
ed by their votes that they
thought their best chances lie
with sending . Democrats to
Washington, despite the warning
that if President Eisenhower is
re-elected they would probably
fare better with Republicans.
Interpreted Several Ways
This may be interpreted sever
al ways. Democrats like to think
that it means the voters hope for
a victory for Stevenson, who
would presumably be more
sympathetic to the cause of
statehood when it is presented
by Democrats from Alaska
hence their choice of Democrats
over Republicans as provisional
members of Congress.
Another interpretation is that
this was Alaska's way of revolt
ing against the plain fact that Ei
senhower has opposed Alaskan
statehood and Stevenson has fav
ored it. The Fairbanks Daily
News - Miner, a pro - statehood
newspaper that regards itself as
independent with Republican
leanings, gave the president a
frosty going-over recently for
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Washington (U.R) The
United States expects to supply
West Germany with about $2.5
billion worth of military equip
ment during the next three
years.
Officials said Saturday the
arms-for-Germany program still
might be changed. But they es
timated that the West German
armed forces would get around
$1.5 billion in American mili
tary grants and arms sales
would total about another 51
billion.
The way for arms sales was
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his latest cautionary expressions
about the prospects of approving
a statehood bill.
It appears fairly clear that
Alaskans turned to the Demo
crats in last Tuesday's election
because they arr sore at the Ei
senhower administration over
statehood but it would be extremely-
hazardous to forecast a
Democratic victory nationally
unless Stevenson can demon
strate the administration to be
equally vulnerable on issues of
national concern.
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Clyde Moody, on his fine dairy farm an the Crater lake Highway four miles from Medford,
has eighty head of Holsteins, thirty-four milking. The 135 acre farm affords wonderful pasture
for Mr. and Mrs. Moody's excellent-producing milk cows. Shown above is Clyde Moody with one
of his Holsteihs in one of three modern-type milking stalls in the dairy's parlor. One of the features
of the dairy to which Mr. and Mrs. Moody point with especial pride is the spic-and-span, sanitary
milk house. The Moodys' son and daughter, both married, and a full time milker complete the
staff. Their milk is sold through the organization in which they hold membership, the Milk Pro
ducers, league of Jackson County, to leading distributors of Grade A Milk in this area, Jorgensen's,
Snider's, Gilman's and Cloverleaf. Those who get the health habit of drinking at least three
glasses of milk every day are encouraging Jackson County's second largest agricultural industry,
dairying. Adv.
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Commie Federation
Moscow (U.R) A Com
munist federation on lines sim
ilar to the British Common
wealth may emerge from the
recent dramatic developments
in the Communist world, diplo
matic observers said Saturday.
They said the new federation,
if it materializes, probably will
be a loose one and not a substi
tute for the pre-war Comintern
(Communist International) or
the disbanded Cominform (Com
munist Information Bureau.)
The federation most likely
would be a free association of
Communist states, united by the
common Marxist ideology, and
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operation and coordination, the
diplomats said
The organizational break
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they said, already has been
made in the Communist mili
tary alliance consolidated at
Warsaw. It set up a unified mil
itary command with headquar
ters in Moscow under the gen
eral direction of Soviet Marshal
Ivan Konev.
Yugoslavia is not a member
of the alliance and observers
said they did not believe Mar
shal Tito could be persuaded to
join now.